On 02/08/2010, Cornelius Schumacher <cschum@suse.de> wrote:
On Sunday 01 August 2010 18:20:58 Otso wrote:
Getting at least those three common nominators in order should be enough to create something that appeals for everyone.
Stability is a common element for all target users, but what functionality and discoverability acttually mean depends highly on the target audience. For some people a command line tool with a good man page is perfectly functional and discoverable and a great user interface, for other people a GNOME UI or something else works better.
There are not many absolutes in user interface design and knowing the audience of the interface is an essential prerequisite for doing it well.
-- Cornelius Schumacher <cschum@suse.de>
Last time I checked (about 5 minutes ago when I opened Konsole for sed), powerful CLI and modern GUI can coexist without any problems. There is absolutely no stepping on advanced users toes if good, easy-to-operate, nice looking and stable GUI with sane defaults is made priority. I used OS X extensively for 2 years 2005-2007, and I was quite happy with it because I could revert to good old *nix command-line wizardy if the GUI couldn't do what I wanted (which was often the case). The existence of pretty GUI didn't interfere with my "powerusing". At all. Using KDE isn't stopping me from doing what I want either, on contrary, having Plasma *not* to crash would be quite helpful. Arguably, it's much easier for advanced users to cope with a easy-to-use GUI that has nice defaults and great stability, than it is for total newbie to tweak everything out of necessity. Powerusers can and will tweak their systems anyway, so concentrating efforts in satisfying our needs (I assume everyone on this mailing list is a poweruser) is hopeless. We have Yast and CLI tools and know our way around them anyway. Take it easy, Otso -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org